Fl, Cl, Vln, Vlc, Pno, and Perc [1 player: Vibraphone, Crotales, Glockenspiel, Suspended Cymbal, Large Tam-Tam, 2 Bongos, S.D., 3 Concert Toms (H,M,L), 2 Triangles (H,L), 4 Graduated Woodblocks]
Written for
Melos Music 2nd Annual Concert
First Performance
Justin Lee (Flute), Jonathan Szin (Clarinet), Cassandra Bequary (Violin), Anne Suda (Cello), Preben Antonsen (Piano), Daniel Temkin (Percussion), and Jason Buchanan (conductor); Melos Music 2nd Annual Concert, Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA, August 19, 2011
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American Pastoral Songs(2009 - 2011)
Duration
ca. 13’
Instrumentation
Tenor and Piano
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed / (Emily Dickinson)
After the Dazzle of Day / (Walt Whitman)
The Yellow Violet / (William Cullen Bryant)
Fragmentary Blue / (Robert Frost)
Afterglow / (James Fenimore Cooper Jr.)
First Performance
Michael Kuhn (tenor) and Christina Chao (piano); Jordan Hall, Boston, MA, May 4th, 2011
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Euphonium Quartet(2011)
Duration
ca. 7’
Instrumentation
4 Euphoniums or Mixed Brass Quartet
I. Dirge
II. March
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Brass Quintet (2009 - 2010)
Duration
ca. 13’
Instrumentation
2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, and Bass Trombone or Tuba
I. Salute
II. March and Sing
III. Tolling Bells
Written for
The American Brass Quintet
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your little voice... (2009)
Duration
ca. 12’
Text
E.E. cummings (used by permission of Liveright Publishing)
Instrumentation
Soprano and Piano
i. your little voice...
ii. a wind has blown the rain away
iii. Love is More Thicker Than Forget
Commissioned by
Susanna Su
Co-premiers
Susanna Su (soprano), Kelly Yu-Chieh Lin (piano); Schare Recital Hall, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2, 2010
Helen Gabrielsen (soprano), Kelly Horsted (piano); Greenwich House Music School, Brooklyn, NY, March 6, 2010
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Wanderings (2004-2005; rev. 2008)
Duration
ca. 6’
Instrumentation
Percussion Quartet (See score sample for set-up diagram.)
Dixie State College of Utah Percussion Ensemble; Glenn Webb, director; DSC Dolores Dore' Eccles Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, St. George, UT, April 21st, 2011.
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Floating Amidst... (2008)
In collaboration with visual artist Leticia Luevanos.
Movement I: A pink glow
Movement II: Soft grey, gentle blue, dark crimson
Duration
ca. 10’
Instrumentation
Trumpet, A Clarinet, Bass Clarinet (dbl. A Clarinet), Cello, Percussion, Marimba (5.0 octave)
First Performance
Ryan McAdams, conductor; Thomas Boulton, trumpet, Justin Bulava, clarinet, David
Eisenreich, percussion, Aimee McPeak, cello, Gregory Mueller, percussion, Ed
Nishimura, clarinet; Graduate Composers Forum Concert: “Sonic Imagery: Visual and
Musical Artworks,” November 21st, 2008, Nicholas Music Center, Rutgers University.
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Five Bagatelles (2006-2007)
I: Homage to Benjamin Britten
II: Homage to Bela Bartok
III: Homage to Aaron Copland
IV: Homage to Henri Dutilleux
V: Homage to György Ligeti
Duration
ca. 12’
Instrumentation
Piano, Violin, and Cello
First Performance
Eun Young Hong, piano; Leo Lo, violin; Mike Holak, Cello; Rutgers Helix! New Music
Ensemble Concert, Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Oct. 21st, 2007.
Awards
Winner, New England Conservatory Honors Ensemble Competition; subsequent performance in Jordan Hall by Trio ING, May 5, 2010
Finalist, 2008 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composers Awards
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Woodwind Quintet No. 1 (2006)
I: A Jovial Winter
II: Resolution and Reflection
III:
Fleeting Moment
IV: Fading Echo
Duration
ca. 19’
Instrumentation
Bassoon, French Horn, A Clarinet, Oboe (dbl. Eng. Horn) and Flute
First Performance
Westminster Wind Quintet; Nicholas Music Center, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, April 24th 2009
two e.e. cummings poems (2006)
I. your little voice...
II. Love Is More Thicker Than Forget
Duration
ca. 6’
Text
E.E. cummings
Commissioned by
Anna Urrey, Flute; Anthony Carrone; Bassoon; Justin Bulava, Clarinet
Instrumentation
Soprano, Flute, Bassoon and A Clarinet
First Performance
Susanna Su, soprano; Anna Urrey, flute; Anthony Carrone; bassoon; Justin
Bulava, clarinet; Works for Percussion and Voice: A little bit tonal at times... presented
by the Rutgers Graduate Composers Forum, Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick,
New Jersey, May 2nd, 2008.
Awards
Finalist, 2007 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composers Awards
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This Still Night - An Aria for Solo Horn and Piano (2005)
Duration
ca. 5’
Instrumentation
French Horn and Piano
First Performance
Bonnie Shappell, horn; Nicholas O’Sullivan, piano; Nicholas Music Center, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 2005.
